Lick My Decals Off, Baby

by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Type: Album
Released: December 1970
Label: Straight
Country: United States
Length: 38:40
Community rating: 4.29/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Following up the monumental 'Trout Mask Replica', Captain Beefheart further refined his impossibly convoluted, highly polyrhythmic approach into an even denser, wonderfully playful sequel. 'Lick My Decals Off, Baby' is remarkably complex and fiercely avant-garde, utilizing wildly shifting time signatures and deeply abstract, highly surreal poetic humor.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, avant-garde, complex, uncommon-time-signatures, idiosyncratic, experimental, dissonant, atonal, fractured

Tracklist

Lick My Decals Off, Baby (2:38)
Doctor Dark (2:44)
I Love You, You Big Dummy (2:53)
Peon (2:22)
Bellerin' Plain (3:33)
Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop (2:04)
Japan in a Dishpan (2:57)
I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have to Go (1:53)
Petrified Forest (1:40)
One Red Rose That I Mean (1:52)
The Buggy Boogie Woogie (2:17)
The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or the Big Dig) (2:09)
Space-Age Couple (2:30)
The Clouds Are Full of Wine (Not Whiskey or Rye) (2:46)
Flash Gordon's Ape (4:15)

Credits

Captain Beefheart - primary artist, producer, written-by, vocals, harmonica [chromatic], tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
The Magic Band - primary artist
Ed Thrasher - art direction, photography by
Peacock Ink - artwork [album concept]
Rockette Morton - bass [bassius-o-pheillius]
Drumbo - drums, percussion
Ed Marimba - drums, percussion, marimba [& broom]
Zoot Horn Rollo - guitar, slide guitar [glass finger guitar]
Grant Gibbs - management [personal management], supervised by [production supervision]
Don Van Vliet - painting [back cover painting]